Spanish Proverbs & Sayings
Best selected Spanish Proverbs for your motivation and to enlighten your thoughts and wisdom.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. [Mothers]
Chins without beards deserve no honor. [Appearance]
What is not yours always chirps for its master. [Ownership]
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. [Contentment]
It is the truth that irritates a person. [Truth]
A poor man is all schemes. [Poverty and The Poor]
Communism is a cow of many; well milked and badly fed. [Communism and Socialism]
Time and I against any two. [Time and Time Management]
Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men. [Knowledge]
There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness. [Happiness]
Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee. [Love]
The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could. [Power]
Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget. [Patience]
Manana is often the busiest day of the week. [Procrastination]
A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. [Equality]
Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it. [Price]
Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow. [Procrastination]
Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker. [Alcohol and Alcoholism]
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. [Change]
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. [Tomorrow]
Two great talkers will not travel far together. [Speakers and Speaking]
He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow. [Law and Lawyers]
Life without a friend is death without a witness. [Solitude]
Water for oxen, wine for kings. [Wine]
If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see. [Forgiveness]
The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones. [Wisdom]
People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the [Opinions]
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. [Flattery]
It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it. [Argument]
The day you marry, it is either kill or cure. [Marriage]
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well. [Advice]
A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s. [Secrets]
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. [Agreement]
Who has a trade may go anywhere. [Skill]
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. [Friends and Friendship]
A pig bought on credit is forever grunting. [Credit]
A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel. [Wealth]
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. [Gossip]
Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money. [Management]
What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning. [Fools and Foolishness]
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. [Health]
A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling. [Words]
Every man for himself and God for us all. [God]
Drink nothing with out seeing it; sign nothing without reading it. [Commitment]If you like these Spanish Proverbs please consider sharing them with your friends.